I think, therefore I amhttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/
My thoughts and my worken-usCopyright 2011Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:39:14 +0000Apache Roller BLOGS401ORA6 (20130904125427)https://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/code_for_freedom_2008_prizeCode For Freedom 2008 Prize Distribution CeremonyVasudha Amrithttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/code_for_freedom_2008_prize
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<div id="refHTML"></div><p>I got the great opportunity to be a part of the national level contest Code for Freedom 08 right from the beginning i.e. organising a talk about it in college, and straight till the end, i.e. the award ceremony. It was a coincidence that my college was reopening on the 20th June and the function happened to be on the 18th June, hence giving me a chance to attend it. I was thanking my stars for it and it felt quite nice as I had seen the contest at various stages and had also participated in it in many ways, as a participant, replying to mails on the Google groups, working with organisers etc. Also it could not get any better after <a href="/lalith">Lalith</a> Suresh, a fellow Campus ambassador and a good friend bagged the first prize :P</p>
<p> So we all reached Fortune JP Cosmos on the 18th morning, where the ceremony was to be held. It was hosted by Abhishek and Amit who did a good job. KNR and Suvendu talked about the contest in detail. Ganesh also talked about his and our team's involvement in the whole process.</p>
<p>Later on, participants got certificates of participation, I also got mine from Suvendu plus a t shirt :P. Finally the winners were given their prizes, Lalith was literally jumping out of his chair to recieve his laptop&nbsp; :D. Nischal, another CA got the second prize which was an Ipod touch. I also met all the other winners who had come from all over India to recieve their prizes. It was nice interacting with them.</p>
<p> Then, finally we moved towards the restaurant for lunch which was awesome :D. Thus ended a great day! :D</p>
<p>&nbsp;Check out pictures taken by an expert photographer cum cluster engineer <a href="/tirthankar/entry/code_for_freedom_2008_prize">here</a>.<br /></p>
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<div id="refHTML"></div>https://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/first_technical_talk_of_theFirst Technical talk of the new academic year, great turnout :PVasudha Amrithttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/first_technical_talk_of_the
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<div id="refHTML"></div>With great pleasure, I wish to tell you that the technical talk
yesterday was an out and out success. This seminar flagged off our
technical fest Techtatva09 as it was the first event of the fest. We
had started the publicity as soon as we got approval for it, got
posters designed, put up stalls and info desks at all corners of the
campus and also announced in all classes for it. We also sent hundreds
of SMS'es to students and emails informing them of the seminar.<br />
We had a participation of 240 students which comprised of students of
all four years of engineering, MCA and Mtech students. The venue was
packed fully and we even had to put up extra chairs to accommodate
people. Abhishek did a great job as always with his speech where he
talked about OpenSolaris and all its features like ZFS, Dtrace etc . He
also talked in great detail about its newly added features like time
slider, device drivers, package manager etc and explained in a lot of
detail, the ins and outs of OpenSolaris.<br />
We also gave out Tshirts and other goodies to people who answered
questions correctly. We also got very good response from the students
who attended the seminar and the fact that they refused the option of a
break in between the talk, makes it obvious that they all had a great
time during the talk.<br />
It lasted for almost three continous hours and was very informative and
highly technical, yet Abhishek did not fail to keep peoples' interest
and enthusiasm up throughout, with his unique style of interacting with
the audience.<br />
At the end,I also talked about OSUM, its various features and importance, and invited everyone to join it.<br />
Abhishek also did the formulation of Manipal OpenSolaris Group and we
have announced an install fest soon by public demand. I am more than
happy with the response and enjoyed the whole experience completely.<br /> <br />
I would like to extend my thanks to Shirish for making it possible,
Abhishek for taking all the trouble of coming down here and giving the
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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:58:53 +0000Suncontestsolaris<p>SUN Microsystems has recently launched OpenSolaris Apps of Steel Challenge which a contest open to both students and professional developers where they have to develop a package to be ported to OpenSolaris using&nbsp; ZFS, DTrace, SMF, and FMA etc. The best port will win a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop!!</p>
<p> So what are you waiting for? Go make your application and claim a brand new laptop... :D</p>
<p>Click <a href="http://www.opensolaris.com/challenge/">here </a>for more details.<br /></p>https://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/manipal_university_student_bags_firstManipal University student bags first prize in Code JavaFX coding contest!!! :PVasudha Amrithttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/manipal_university_student_bags_first
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:51:28 +0000Sunjavafx<p>I had never imagined in my dreams that hard work brings fruits so quickly. I am saying it because I believe today my efforts have become successful.</p>
<p>I feel extremely proud in telling the world that a student named Chinmay Garde, third year, CSE department from our college Manipal Institute of Technology has won the first prize in the Code JavaFX contest. His application called FxTweet has been highly appreciated by all in the JavaFx team too as the evaluators sent him a congratulatory note.</p>
<p> All this is the result of a two day JavaFX workshop and hands on session we conducted here on campus with two SUN engineers Raghu and Subrata who tirelessly taught us about JavaFX in great detail. It was attended by about 200 students from all four years of Btech, MCA and Masters students too.</p>
<p>We installed NetBeans 6.5 with JavaFX SDK in each and every one's laptops and then we did a day long hands on session. After that we also had a contest where students had to develop an application using JavaFX in an hour's time and the best three applications would win prizes like Laptop bag, pen drive and a cool JavaFX&nbsp; T shirt. We got some very good applications and the competition was very close. A guy Ankur won the first prize for his game.<br /></p>
<p> We also conducted a quiz and lucky draw where we gave out t shirts, key chains, book marks, pens etc as prizes.</p>
<p>I am thankful to Raghu, Subrata for their time and effort, Ganesh and Abhishek for their support and congratulations to Chinmay for his grand victory.&nbsp;</p>
<p> Way to go!!! :P</p>
<p>I can see MIT coming up prominently on the global map of Open Source!! <br /></p>
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<p><br /></p>https://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/my_experience_at_iec_bangaloreMy experience at IEC, BangaloreVasudha Amrithttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/my_experience_at_iec_bangalore
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:30:00 +0000SuniecinternshipI had been waiting for this day since ages i.e. the day I would go to India Engineering Centre, SUN's office in Bangalore, India. And it finally arrived on 5th December when my winter vacations began. It was like a dream come true for me to work in&nbsp; a place like IEC with all the superb infra structure, support and help from engineers, guidance available at hand. It was an amazing experience where I worked on a project called Student Management Software using NetBeans 6.5, GlassFish application server, MySql and JSP. It was a very good learning experience to learn directly from the makers of the technology.<br />Apart from the technical skills I gained over there, I also enjoyed a lot of outings with our team. Ganesh Sir took us out for lunch to a really nice restra called Oh Calcutta! where we had nice Bengali food. I worked on the CampusWorld newsletter of January edition along with Ganesh Sir, Rajesh, Abhishek and Tirthankar. It was great fun to do it and after long tireless efforts, we finally made the final draft of the newletter filled with news and reports from India.<br />You can view the newletter <a href="http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/campusworld.jsp">here</a>...<br /><br />Abhishek and me also made a video of new year wishes by the Campus Ambassador team and SUN engineers for all the Campus Ambassadors of the world.<br />You can view the video we made <a href="http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=B_h2nmG81ko">here</a>..&nbsp;https://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/xvm_virtualbox_2_1_releasedXVM VirtualBox 2.1 released with a bang!!!!1 Vasudha Amrithttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/xvm_virtualbox_2_1_released
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:11:27 +0000Sunboxcampusnewreleasesvirtualvirtualization<style type="text/css">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">VirtualBox is like magic for most of
the students in my college because whenever I talk about it, people
are awestruck and look at me gaping, asking me “How the hell is it
possible to have Linux running inside Windows or vice versa??!!”...
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Much to their amazement, I show them
the demo and they all immediately want to try it out.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">VirtualBox indeed is something truly
amazing which does not stop to amuse and surprise people. Most
importantly its safe to use as you do not really have to install an
new OS on raw machine, rather its just a file on your hard disk which
you can use/modify/delete in a second's time.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Not just in my college, its extremely
extremely popular all over the world, check the facts:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<i><b>8 million downloads worldwide,
2.5 million registrations and 25,000 downloads a day!!!” </b></i> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>Woah....
that's a helluva number!!!!!.....</span></span><br /> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I am extremely pleased to tell you
about the latest version of VirtualBox, released yesterday which xVM
VirtualBox 2.1 (my room mate who works for xVM team here at IEC,
Bangalore) couldnt be any happier, infact we celebrated with balloons
and stuff at home... :D</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The main features of this new release
are:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arab">1.New Accelerated 3D
Graphics – wow!!!!!<br />2.Improved Network Performance – much
needed change!<br />3.Storage Support (built-in iSCSI support to
connect to storage systems ie Amber Road)</font></p>
<p><tt><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arab"><font size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">4.Mac
OS X on Intel's Virtualization Technology (VT-x) –</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></tt><tt><font color="#000000"><font face="Arab"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><br />5.VMware's
and Microsoft's Virtualization Formats - </span></font></font></font></tt><tt><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arab"><font size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">now
this is super coooool!!!!!</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></tt><tt><font color="#000000"><font face="Arab"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><br />6.I</span></font></font></font></tt><tt><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arab"><font size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">ntel
Core</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></tt><tt><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><sup><font face="Arab"><font size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> </span></span></span></font></font></sup></span></font></tt><tt><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arab"><font size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">i7
processor<br />7.</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></tt><tt><font color="#000000"><font face="Arab"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">64-bit
guest OS on 32-bit host platforms</span></font></font></font></tt></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">So what are you waiting...... get the
“new improved VirtualBox” <a href="http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp">here</a>.....</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cheers!!!!!! :D :D</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/javafx_version_1_0_releaseJavaFX version 1.0 Release!!!!Vasudha Amrithttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/javafx_version_1_0_release
Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:30:00 +0000Sunjavajavafx<p> <img width="623" height="273" src="http://connections.fiap.com.br/blogs/lab4tech/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/javafx_logo_color_1.jpg" /></p>
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<p>JavaFx 1.0 was launched yesterday with a big bang. This is one of the most revolutionary technologies developed by Sun Microsystems and is an extremely powerful tool for developing rich client applications and by rich I mean really super rich!! :D You have to see it to believe it!!....</p>
<p> JavaFX combines the best capabilities of the Java platform with
comprehensive, immersive media functionality into an intuitive and
comprehensive, one-stop development environment.</p>
<p>So here are some pointers about what JavaFx is really about:</p>
<ul>
<li>Provides a unified development and deployment model for building rich client applications</li>
<li>Enables you to easily integrate audio and video, graphics, rich text, and Web services</li>
<li>Allows creative developers to program in a visual context</li>
<li>Provides tools to build and deliver rich Internet applications for desktop, mobile, TV, and other consumer platforms</li>
<li>Enables unprecedented collaboration between designers and developers</li>
<li>Allows
designers and Java developers to easily leverage the best of today's
advanced enterprise software and rich Internet applications.</li>
<li>JavaFX Script, a high-performance declarative scripting language,
enables you to quickly and easily develop rich Internet applications
and next-generation services for desktops, browsers, mobile devices,
set-top boxes, and, over time, other consumer platforms.</li>
<li>Applications can combine audio/video and 2D graphics with 3D
perspective transform (true 3D graphics coming soon) and rich text,
with compelling visual effects and transformations.</li>
</ul>&nbsp; You can download JavaFX SDK and view videos at www.javafx.com.<br />
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<p><br /></p>https://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/netbeans_ide_6_5_releaseNetBeans IDE 6.5 releaseVasudha Amrithttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/netbeans_ide_6_5_release
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:30:00 +0000SunnetbeansThe much awaited NetBeans IDE 6.5 release finally was launched before
the whole world on the 20th November, 2008. I was on top of the world
this day as I had been waiting for it since a very long time. I was
using NetBeans 6.5 Beta version for one of my projects and I loved it
from the first day itself.<br />
Now let me tell you about the new features in NetBeans 6.5 :<br /> <br />
\* PHP support with code completion, Xdebug and web service features.<br />
\* JavaFX 1.1 supports animation, graphics and media codecs for rich
content application development for desktop and mobile devices.<br />
\* New Support for Groovy and Grails.<br />
\* Improved JavaScript, AJAX and Ruby support.<br />
\* Automatic Compile and Deploy on Save for Java and Java EE applications.<br />
\* Improved database support: SQL history, SQL completion, and results viewing and editing improvements.<br />
\* Improved Java ME support for Data Binding, SVG and Custom Component creation.<br />
\* GUI Builder: Support for Nimbus and simple class names.<br />
\* JUnit: single test method support.<br />
\* Debugger: Redesign of Step into feature.<br /> <br />
Isn't it super cool??<br />
What are you waiting for then? Download it <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html">here.</a>....https://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/code_for_freedom_contestCode For Freedom ContestVasudha Amrithttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/code_for_freedom_contest
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:30:00 +0000SuncontestopensourceI planned out this workshop after taking feedback from everyone from in
my OSUM club. The date we finally decided upon was just one week before
our examinations. We then did online registrations for participants via
email. In a couple of days we got around sixty registrations. Finally
on the day of the workshop, the venue I had booked was being used for
some other purpose. So, I took permission to use another auditorium as
the venue and sent out SMS messages to all the participants about the
venue change. After settling down at the new venue, I informed the
participants about the contest, its rules and regulations, SUN
technologies they can use, its benefit and finally the grand prizes.<br /> <br />
I was happy to see the response of the students who were all very
enthusiastic about participating in the contest. I asked them to
register for it and clarified their doubts regarding it with the help
of Tirthankar Das, OHAC engineer who is one of the coordinators of the
contest.<br /> <br />
I also asked all the participants to join OSUM and encourage their
friends to do the same too. I told them about the benefits of joining
it and what an useful and fun website it is.<br /> <br />
Later on we also discussed ideas for projects to be submitted in the
contest. I was extremely satisfied with the successful completion of
the workshop.https://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/love_at_first_boot_andLove at First Boot and SFD festivities at Manipal........ :DVasudha Amrithttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/love_at_first_boot_and
Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:51:29 +0000Sunambassadorcampusnetbeansopensfdsolarissource<p>The very first time I heard about Software Freedom Day was by Gary during our induction program in Bangalore. Ever since then I was all excited and had started planning things for it to involve as many students as possible and make them a part of what I think is the revolutionary “Open Source Revolution”.... I am emphasizing on the word revolutionary a lot because I feel its certainly like a tide of new technology which will overturn the existing one and in a big, big, big way!!!. The bubble is growing and growing every day, every moment, every second.....<br />Anyways in my dreams of evangelizing Open source like never before, I completely forgot to take into account, the monthly exams which we have in our college whose dates coincided with SFD and all my dreams came crashing down like a sand castle..... But then I thought why should I not do it a week ahead and again with a new ray of hope, I called up Rajesh and Ganesh who gave me a thumbs up to go on...Then another miracle happened, while I was talking to Rajesh one day over the phone, Abhishek seemed to be around and I asked him if he would like to come to our college and give a lecture. The extremely enthusiastic and passionate Abhishek at once said that he would check out his project plan and let me know. So in a couple of days, I got a mail from him that he would be ready to come here at a cost that I would have to introduce him to all my beautiful female friends and juniors. Just kidding Uncle!!!... :D<br />Then began the usual work of getting posters designed,printed, putting them up, setting up info<br />desks at strategic places all across the campus, we ( my volunteers and me) managed to get a huge registration list, so much so that we stopped registrations and announced that seats will be on a first come first serve basis only....<br />Finally on a lazy Saturday afternoon, with our Lecture hall completely full i.e. With 200 participants (about which I was a bit sceptic as Saturdays in Manipal are synonymous to sleeping and partying only), we began with a talk on “Open Source technologies and You” where participants had a gala time and were laughing their heads off with Abhishek's interesting anecdotes. Then we did a hands on and demo session on NetBeans where we installed NetBeans on each and everyone's laptops and then followed it up with some simple programs which everyone would follow...Thus the first day of the two-day SFD celebration got over with the hall full to its brim till the last minute.....<br />The next day again we all met at the same venue and in the first half we did Open Solaris installations in VirtualBox in everyone's laptops, and it was such an overwhelming scene. I had tears in my eyes looking at the familiar dark blue Open Solaris desktops of about 215 laptops all at once.....<br />After lunch, we had a PHP and MySQL demo session where Abhishek told us about the basics of Internet, HTTP and then took us through an interesting journey of creating cool websites using the deadly duo PHP and MySQL. After that, Abhishek did the most comical intonation of “SHIFT HAPPENS!!!” and everyone present there was rolling with laughter. Then we ended the program with “Three cheers for SFD” and an extremely generous and warm round of applause for the king of the show i.e. Our UNCLE............<br />Never before did the MIT junta enjoy a technical seminar so much, this was evident in the fact that not one person in the whole audience wrote a single negative comment about anything in the feedback sheets we distributed at the end of the event, instead showed a lot of positive interest in Open Source technologies and said that they were willing to know more about them in detail, in future....<br />I would rate the event as 10/10 and I would give all the credit to Abhishek for his sheer excellence in the way he interacts with the crowd, keeps them hooked and interested and makes all of them fall in love with him literally( a few girls actually left their phone numbers on the feedback sheets for him, not that he was complaining!!! and a couple of guys too....lolz...... :D).....Thank You Uncle for all the pains you took to make this event an out and out success.......<br />I would like to heartily thank Gary for infusing the spirit of Software Freedom Day in us, giving us useful tips and suggestions all the time and personally dealing with all our little problems...<br />I would also like to thank Ganesh and Rajesh for being so supportive and encouraging at all times and being there, only a phone call or email away.....<br />I hope as a CA, I will be able to contribute in my little way in making the Open Source revolution bubble big till it encompasses every student living under the SUN (no puns intended!!!!) ...... Cheers!!!!!!! :P </p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/talk_on_project_glassfish_turnTalk on project Glassfish (turn out = 482 people) & what followed next!! :PVasudha Amrithttps://blogs.oracle.com/vasudha/entry/talk_on_project_glassfish_turn
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<p>After a hectic and exhausting weekend, the whole yesternight I was not able to sleep as I was so damn anxious about today's event i.e. a talk on Project Glassfish By Sudhir Prabhu, who also happens to be an alumni of our college now working with Sun. &nbsp;At last when I was done with running from one end of the college to other, getting permissions, putting up posters, mailing existing Sun club members etc&nbsp; about the event, I was still apprehensive about the turn-out becasue Glassfish is a new technology and there is little awareness about it in our college.<br /><br />Contrary to my expectations, students started thronging the Library Auditorium, the venue for the&nbsp;event,&nbsp;at a great pace and in a few minutes there were no empty seats, infact we had to put up extra chairs all around the place and even then people kept coming, so much so that we had to send people back. Some people even volunteered to sit on the floor. There were a total of 482 students, HODs and faculties from four departments and the associate director ( phew!!!!! :P )attending the talk when we did a head count and that is not counting people who had gone back.<br /><br />Mr.Sudhir gave a very interesting and enlightening talk about Glassfish, its various versions, clusters and finally gave us the links and information of the ongoing projects etc where students can participate and contribute. I was amazed to see people listening to him with rapt attention (despite the cool AC, comfy chairs = perfect setup for a nap :D ) and asking alot of questions both during and after the talk. I gave a small talk about the Sun club we have in our college and how students would be benefitted by being a member of it.<br /><br />We also distributed Open Solaris starter kits and Netbeans Cds to interested students and I also sent out registration forms for the Sun Club membership ( I had to get it photcopied thrice as the number of students was alot more than my expectations!!! :P ) but I now have all these new members for my club, so I am not complaining. At the end of the talk, I was the happiest person around and thanked everyone for attending the talk, participating and interacting with so much enthusiasm, thus making it a GRAND SUCCESS!!!!!! :P<br /><br />This whole experience gave me so much confidence and a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that I cant put it down in words. Thanks alot Sun for giving me this wonderful opportunity to work as a Campus Ambassador, organise these wonderful events, interact with my fellow college mates, gain so much insight and I have to say it has changed my life forever. I am on a high!!!!!!!!!.......CHEERS!!!!! :D :P </p>
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